This year’s sidewalk poetry contest is about to get underway in St. Paul, and the city is looking for haiku, limericks and other short verse to imprint into city sidewalks.

I mean face it, isn’t this the kind of publishing a poet really wants? To be virtually written in stone?

The contest is open to submissions March 15 through April 17, and there’s a workshop for people interested in learning more on April 9. Five poems will be selected, and each poet will be awarded $150, as well as literary immortality (well, at least as long as the sidewalk lasts). Find out all the details here.